I apologize for my newbie-ness, but I have what I think is a simple question, and I haven't had any luck finding info.
I'm going to be purchasing a HP A6554F machine with a PCI-Ex16 slot running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. What I want is this: I have a Samsung DLP HDTV that I want to use as a second monitor for the purposes of viewing video. The VGA specs from the manual are as follows:
Mode: VESA
Resolution: 1920x1200RB
Vertical Hz: 59.885
Horizontal Hz: 74.556
Vertical polarity: P
Horizontal polarity: N
I have a dinky 17" LCD (VGA only) that I want to continue using as a normal PC monitor; it's 1280x1024. I am not a gamer, there will be no games played on this machine (other than Minesweeper or Solitaire
). I just want to do my browing, Excel, Visual Studio etc. on my 17" and watch video on the Samsung. Doing both at the same time would be great, though I could probably live with single tasking if I had to.
So, is this something a "normal" dual monitor capable card can do with Vista? Again, I apologize for this being such a basic question, but my knowledge in this area is very weak.
Thanks in advance,
Brad